The Clifton clarion., 1887-07-20
LordshurG Correspondence.

Orders have been given to B. s. Horton, road-master of the South ern Pacific railroad, to lay the water mains from here to the wells at Shakespeare.
 Wednesday and Thursday were the wet days of the season here. A most delightful fall was experi enced, much to the joy of stock men and owners of living kine generally.
 Dr. Gaddis has purchased the lease and the dry good stock of Harry Small at the old place.
 O. R. Smythe has leased his wEeelright and blacksmith shop to NJ. R. Donovan, a most excellent mechanic.
 Lordsburg is blessed in having an able prachcing physician and surgeon in A. N. Simpson, M. D.
 The machinery, boiler, engine and a ten-stamp mill complete i have arrived directed to J. P. Pat terson, son-in-law of Dr. Daven- port. The mill will be planted at tue group of mines owned by Dr. Davenport, sons and Mir. Patter- son, at East Camp, near Carlisle. This will make eight stamps work ing in that district, when they will have been put in place. The mill and machinery will be hauled by wagon from here to the camp. O.. R. Smythe will do the freighting.
 W. G. StaUbly and Sam Black passed through town on their way | to Pueblo, Colorado. Mir. Staubly stopped over one day to greet his friends and old acquaintances. He and MT. Black intend to take a contract to build a grade on the Colorado Midland railroad.
 Judge Fielder of Deming paid us a professional visit last week.
 A party from the Glorietta mountains report that a white man and a Mexican have discovered an exceedingly rich deposit of gold quartz on that range. He said the matter is being kept qniet. The exact locality is not known.
 The flooring having been laid and the debris removed out of Mr. W. H. Small's new building, and word being sent out, an impromptu gathering took place last Thurs day night, which in point of en- joyment by those who attended, will be long remembered. The music struck up, about 9 o'clock, a grand march, and all the fair ones, with their gallants, proceeded to keep time to the delightful strains. Among the ladies present were Mesdames Small, Classen, Brown, Clair, Black, Bramble Ownby, Bob Ownby, Miss Ella McWhort and the Misses Classens. The gentle men present were Messrs. Bramble Ownby, John NJ. Classen, Charles Philips, Charles Schutz, Otto John son, Jas. Sterling, Dan Rozell and Norman Buck, Esq. A number were there whose names your cor respondent did not know.
 Mrs Frank Woodward has been very sick but is now on the high way to recovery. Dr. Simpson at tended her. He also has been at tending T. J. Kurtz. who is at present convalescing, though ex- ceedingly weak.
 Dr. Simpson, Lawyer Buck and the Hart brothers are going to erect a building, out of adobes, to be used as offices, on the south side of Railroad avenue.
 That gallant soldier and modest, unassuming gentleman, Captain Lawton, commanding B troop, 4th cavalry, passed through here on the 12th inst, with his company, en routh to Washington, D. C.. The train they were on is known as section two of No. 19, and was composed of three box-cars, for baggage, etc, four stock cars, car rying horses, two Texas and Pa cific excursion coaches, in which were the enlisted men, one South ern Pacific sleeper for the officers and caboose for the train men. Lawton's command is renowned far and near, and justly so Here on the ground, so to speak, every one can bear testimony to the value of the services that this com pany has rendered, through pluck, perseverance and hardships. And though we feel loss in their de- parture, we are glad that they will be at the seat of government a body of men who have followed the willy and tiendish Apaches- whose trail was reeking with the blood of the settler, prospector, women and children, besides be- ing marked with the ashes and ruins of their homes. This troop will be competent witnesses as to the truth of the grievances as re- peatedly published to the world through the press of both Arizona and New Mexico in seeking relief from the Apache curse.
 A Mir. Johnson has made a race with Henry Gray, which is to come off on the 29th instant. The horses belonging to either of the parties are of good running qualities and a sharp contest may be looked for when the race comes off.
 Mir. Igo, whose ranch is in the Chiricahuas, reports that fruits of all kind do well on his place. He says that peaches, apricots, grapes, etc., are ripe, and that the German carp in his ponds are of the most healthy kind: the yearlings and